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This was such a breeze for a first time builder. Its GORGEOUS, everything is labeled on the PCB or underneath the pins so there was little confusion when building, and it has all the bells and whistles I could ever need.

Looks great even without the fancy lights on. More importantly, it runs cheap RAM at 3200MHz (Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200) with just a simple pre-loaded BIOS profile. Debug codes and dual BIOS are great, might not be able to go without them again!!

A few nitpicks:
--M.2 is in almost the worst spot possible. Right under the GPU. Seems to be a common problem though.
--The gimmicky "clear plastic design/removable RGB thing" is placed super poorly too. That's right where the biggest cable in the PC (24-pin) has to pass in front!! PLUS the front USB 3.0 and in my case 2X fan cables.
--Temp sensors are nice but the cables are WAY long. I ran one like 3 inches to the NVMe drive and had to wrap up a huge wad of cable in between.
--RGB software already crashed a couple times. Looks like it's "extreme rainbow pulse" for now...

AWESOME. Fantastic motherboard. Replaced the previous board I had in there and is doing a great job. Stable power, great overclocks, looks amazing. Faces the same issue as most Gigabyte MOBOs at the moment, that being that the UEFI BIOS is maybe a touch on the light-side, missing one or two features I'd have liked to see and with related settings sometimes buried in different menus. Overall though, these are minor quibbles about a fantastic piece of kit.

Love the dual-bios function, it saved my ***! Lots of RGB, although the music function is kinda gimmicky. Includes on-board butons for: Power, Reset, CMOS clear, and OC. Has tons of fan/pump headers and a tasteful board design. CPU LED header doesn't always match the motherboard LEDs that well, so keep that in mind if you want to use the stock 1700 cooler.

I love this board. It looks fantastic and made it quite easy to dial in stable OC settings.
My only complain is the M.2 location. Right under the GPU isn't the best place for installation due to thermals.

To be honest this was the worst part in my build, on a superficial glance it is a very good motherboard, lots of io, built in lighting, all of its features seem to be top notch, however upon use you can tell it falls apart. First of all the bios is minimal and buggy, a major bug that troubled me for a month was that it reset cpu and ram frequency if the voltage was over 1.3v after not being intensely used a few minutes after system start, this has yet to be fixed.
The second strike against this motherboard is that it has a glaring dark orange led in the centre of the board, I have tried to hide it with electrical tape but it is strong enough to shine through which ruins the whole point of rgb imo.
The third strike is the led system, not only are they more obtuse then it would seem on video (shining bright instead of a glow) but they have a heavily limited colour scheme and CANNOT TURN ORANGE, given that orange is the color of the lighting on all of its promotional material I cannot forgive this issue, the only colors I find are particularly good are dark blue, red, purple and green. white is heavily toned turquoise and strangely enough when set to turquoise the right hand panel is a shade lighter then the other leds.

Yes! It's really good. It comes with a bunch of accessories (although one of the SATA cables is apparently non-functional) and neat little accessories like extra velcro straps and SATA labels. Every port is clearly labelled and the manual is very readable. The BIOS is also pretty good and easy to use, plus double bios, and it comes with a suite of firmware which is not only fast, but it actually works! Yowza!

Two problems: HORRIBLE M.2 placement, it's behind the GPU! There's also only one M.2 slot, which is a bit meh. The SATA ports on the top also get blocked by full size GPUs.